Jamie Radner

Jamie Radner is an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto (Canada), where he is the executive director and co-founder of The Boreal Institute for Civil Society.    He is also a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where he directs the International Program on Social Entrepreneurship and Civil Society.   

Since 2009, Jamie has been part of the TruePoint Center team that has worked closely with the Harvard Center on the Developing Child as part of the Frontiers of Innovation initiative to promote science-based innovation to improve early childhood outcomes for children facing adversity.   This work has expanded to include work with the Grand Challenges Canada Saving Brains initiative, an initiative that draws on a portion of the Canadian foreign aid budget to promote innovative approaches to improving early childhood outcomes worldwide.

Jamie’s teaching and action research concern issues of domestic and international social and economic development, and uses of quantitative and qualitative tools to improve the effectiveness of social institutions. He has wide experience in civil society and development, including positions at community health, education, and economic development organizations, as well as program and management work at Amnesty International U.S.A., and consulting assignments for governments, aid institutions, businesses, and civic organizations.

Previously, Jamie was a senior advisor at Hogan & Hartson LLP in Washington, DC. He earned a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and completed the P.M.D. at Harvard Business School.